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VOL. 10— NO. 214
8HAWNEE, OKLAHOMA MONDAY, AUGUST 26. 1907
SHAWNEE NEWS 40c A MONTH
WKE F L
m SECRETARY TUFT
War Secretary Criticises Document
Scathingly and Urges Election
of Republican State Ticket
as Safeguard
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 26.—
Mr. Taft began by defining the is-
sues of the election as twofold; first,
the acceptance or rejection of the
constitution, and, second, the election
of a republican or a democratic state
and legislative ticket and United
States senators; explained his atti-
tude as that of a republican, putting
himself in the place of a citizen of
Oklahoma, and advising the repub.
iicans of Oklahoma In respect to the
Wisdom or otherwise of adopting ths
constitution. He disclaimed entirely
any authority to speak for the presi-
dent on the subject of the validity
or invalidity of the constitution, for
the reason that the function which
the president performed was a judic-
ial one as to whether the proposed
constitution conforjued to the en
abling act and the constitution of the
United States. It was not the func.
tion of the president to reject the
constitution merely because h«? did
not approve its wisdom and did not
lika Us provisions from a political
Standpoint. His function was wholly
judicial almost exactly the same what
It would be if it was submitted to the
supreme court. Whereas the attitude
of the secretary here was a member
of the republican party discussing
the political issues of the day and
pointing out the political weakness
and lack of wisdom in the proposed
constitution.
The Secretary then characterized
the constitution as a code of laws and
that a prohibition of consolidation of
non-competing lines would much In-
terfere with the facility of transpor-
tation in the state. He also pointed
nit that the restriction upon the
union of private corporations and the
amassing of plants for the purpose
of producing economy in production
would be an obstacle to the growth
of th«: state because conmbination of
capital was just as necessary as com-
bination of labor, and that tbe best
way to reach the evils of combination
of capital was by anti-trust laws'and
prosecutions for that purpose and
not by preventing that which was a
necessary part in the world in con-
tinuing the economies, to-wit, the
combination of capital. He called at-
tention to other restrictions upon
railways which he thought would be
made to work rather in the interest
of railroad constructors than in the
interest of municipalities in whose
favir the restriction had been pro-
posed.
Ha1 commented at length on the
necessity for maintaining the power
of the courts, and condemned th-> re-
quirement that jury trial should in
tervene between an order of injunc
tion and punishment for Its violation
He said that his would practically re
suit in puries passing on the merits
of the order and would utterly de-
prive the state courts of a power
which would always reside in the
Federal courts. This would result in
giving to non-residents an advantage
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by-laws rather than a fundamental jn matters of litigation that the real-
n«l nnmnarod it with the i • . C K.. ,.fata nnulil Tint PlliflV.
instrument, and compared it with the
simplicity, scope and beautiful com-'
prehensive diction of the constitution
of the United States, which for one
hundred and thirty years had met the
needs of the nation.
Taking up the various provisions,
he commented, first, on the initiative
and referendum clause which he said
went further in this regard than any
referendum provision tried or adopt,
ed in any state of the Union; that he
approved of referendum principles of
local option laws and for the deter-
mination of the conferring of fran-
chises and the granting of privileges
to quasi-public corporations but
thought that tP introduce such an
entirely novel system and radical
change which would worR only with
a paople alert and used to the exer«
else of political privileges into a new
state, one-half of which had been In-
D. L. Jacobs, engineer at th Up-
To-Date Steam Laundry in Shawnee,
received word Saturday, from
his mother, Mfrs. S. E.
Myers, who lives near Ed-
mond that all the heirs amounting to
12G, have been located and that a
fortune of three million dollars ami
fifteen thousand acres of land in
est Virginia will be settled at once
after being intact fifteen years. An
unhaired great uncle of .Jacobs, who
lesided at Wheeling, West Virginia,
left the fortune without a will at hi
death fifteen years ago. Jacobs had
never paid any attention to it until
this letter fr>n his mother Who is
also one of the heirs. John W. Ja-
cobs an 1 Henry Jacobs, formerly em-
plyoed here by the Gloyd Lumber
company now at Oklahoma City, art*
also among the heirs. The man who
accumulated the fortune was named
John Ball and on the death 12 years
ago of Jacobs' father who was a
nephew, he has paid no attention to
It. It came as a great surprise
There is also another fortune soon
to be distributed in which his wife is
one of the heirs and which includes
an entire English city that is valued
In the millions. There Jb a tale of
romance connected with the English
fortune.
The Wilson family of which her
father was a member, was given a
large tract of land in the early part
of th;' nineteenth century and later
on a large city was built in the midst
of the estate. At the time of the
great Mrs. Jacobs great grandfather
was given a belt by the King as evi-
dence of his title and which should
always acocmpany a transfer to the
next heir. This belt has been lost,
and the heirs have been searching
for a number of years to gH it in 01
der to establish their title. Tbe last
heard of it was smuggled to America
and has not been seen or heard of
since. The Jacobs family have liv*d
in Shawnee a number of years and
ar,. well known here.
KICKED BY MULE PROHIBITIONIST
WITH SUCH A PROTECTION IT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR THE ARM
RICH OFFENDER.
dents of the state could not enjoy.
He said that the writ of injunction
was one of the most beneficial writs
that a court could have, and that it
was just as useful in defense of the
poor as in the defense of the rich,
and With any weakening of it as an
instrument for remedying wrongs
would operate In favor of th rich
manufactor and wrong-doer. He com-
mented at length on the hypocracy of
the farmers of the constituion in pur-
porting to make an instrument by
which the will of the people should
be ascertained pure and undefiled,
and then by merit political trckery
and chicanery adopt a plan by which
there might be a majority of 30,000
for the republican ticket in the state,
and yet there b-e a democratic legis-
lature and two democratic senators,
thus securing an expression of popu-
lar will with two democratic sena
owv, UUD-U"" W* " lur Will ««L11
dian Territory, in which the illiter- j tors t0 represent a republican ma
acy was large and the exercise of po- J jorlty, but this itself shows what a
litical privileges had been little was |, )C^ery an attempt by initiative and
a very doubtful experiment. referendum to ascertain—the tru°>
Second, he approved a gre^t mailt, wj]] people was and how emp-
of the provisions with reference to ty their declaration "Ivet the people
the restriction of corporate fran-
chises and the conduct of corpora-
tions. domestic and foreign contained
in the corporation clause of the con-
stitution, but they might very much
better be in the statutes, than in a
constitution. There were, however,
some provisions that were so drastic
as likely to Interfere with th« devel-
opment of the state and to drive for-
eign capitajl away from investment
in the state. The development of
the State was dependent on foreign
capital, and 1' that was discouraged
,h-- state's progress would certainly
be delayed.
He commented on the provision
which forbade consolidation of non-
competing public sendee corporations
which would prevent the union of
„ railroads in one line, a union and
consolidation that had done so much
to facilitate railroad transportation
tie country over. He approved those
restrictions upon the consolidation of
competing lines, but he pointed out
rule."
OUR ^I ST S
are limply crowded with flood and
cheap propo itlon«. We quot ju«t a
few below:
26 beautiful Rose Garden lots at
$50 each, on easy terms.
4 beautiful east front lots on cor
ner of Dewey and Tuckler streets, at
$162.60 each. Half cash and balance
monthly.
Nice 5 room cottage on Draper av-
enue, $1700.
Nice 6 room cottage on 10th street
$1250.
Nice V room two Btory residence,
including nice 100 foot corner. Just
the place to raise chickens, haw
your own horse and buggy, «>ac. Part
cash and balance on long and easy
terms, $15f0.
See Us tor Bargains
COFFIN A LAMBARD,
,8 N. Bell St Pbone 3«8
OF JUSTICE TO REACH TI 110
be a state should range itself under
the progressive principles of Theo-
dore Rojsevelt who did things, than
in the ranks of a party of Inefflci ncy
and begation lige the democracy
which had to support only the states
of the solid south united by the i
ghost of a past issue in the unfoun-l-l
=>d fear of so-called 'negro domina-
tion."
Secretary Taft arrived in Oklaho-
ma City nearly five hours late, his
train being delayed near Springfkli.
Mo., by a freight wreck. The secre.
tary dined at the Threadgill and was
tendered a reception in the afternoon
at Convention hall, after reviewing
the largest parade In the history ofj
the state. There were fully twenty-
five thousand people from outside the
city who came to see Taft. He was
compelled to rewrite his speech after
reaching here, as by accident he left
it behind in his grip at St. Louis, and
owing to tjhe telegraphers' strike,
could not have It forwarded by wire
He left Saturday night on his trip to
the coast. All who heard the speech
cf Secretary Taft were dumf3unded
pt the wonderful comprehension he
had of the document and the ease
with which he analyzed It, b^lng per-
haps more familiar with it than any
lawyer in the new state. He referred
to the manner in which it was car-
ried around in the pocket of the
chairman of the convention and said
he understood that the people w«re
made to believe that the thirty
amendments were made to the con-
stitution at the request of the attor-
ney general. The truth was that
when the chairman wrote to the at-
torney general that gentleman re-
plied that it was a judicial question
for the president to decide and that
all he could do would be to forward
the complaints sent to him by resi
dents of the new stale and let 'h?
constitutional convention do as it
pleased. He said that he was certain
the constitutional convention was not
guided by these complaints in mak-
ing the amendments or tbey would
1 ave to revise the entire instrument.
His speech was broken by frequent
and hearty applause.
He commented on the heavy ex-
pense which the state would be sub-
Jected to In the unnecessary number
of offices and also upon the severe
Impairment of the system of educa-
tion by limitations upon taxation for
educational purposes, which in the In-
dian Territory it was said by those
who knew would probably not afford
more than two months' duration in
a year. The constitution provided
for separate schools, white and negro,
and yet made no provision by taxa-
tion for carrying out any such sys
tem. For these reasons the secre-
tary said if he were a citizen of Ok
lahoma, he would certainly vote for
the rejection of the constitution, be
cause he believed that it was a great
d?al easier to reject the constitution
than to amend it so as to eliminate
its defects and he would be confident
citizen that the next congress
would come to the aid of the people
of Oklahoma by a new enabling act
and a new convention. He said, "how
ever, that he realized there was i
strong feeling in the territory for
statehood, and that that would have
a very decided influence upon many
people to make them accept the con-
stitution, however vicious and how-
ever defective, with the hope of
amending it in the future. This
brought him to the second issue
which was whether the republican or
democratic state and legislative
ticket should be elected and upon
that issue the arguments that he ad-
vanced against the constitution were
doubly strong in favor of the elec-
tion of a republican state and legis-
lative ticket, because if amendments
were to be proposed to the constitu-
tion, and if the defects, were to be
eliminated, only republican legislation
could be trusted to bring this about.
A democratic legislature could be de
pended upon to reintroduce as law
those things which they really fav-
ored but which they had stricken out
of the constitution lest they might
lead to the rejection of the constltu
tion by the president.
The secretary then took up all the
national issues^ the tariff and the
disastrous effect of a revision of It.
the policy with respect to our dep^n.
dencies in the Philippines, the ques- Braces up the whole system,
tion whether we should hav*> govern- news your lost energy; the most ef-
ment ownership or railway reguJa- fective bowel tonic for tired, sick
tion, the treatment by the? present people. Hollister's Rocky Mountain
administration of trusts, the foreign Tea, the greatest American remedy-
policy and the navy, and urged the 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. For sal"
new state of Oklahoma, If it was to by Shawnee Drug Co. • I
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j BANK of COMMERCE
While attempting to take his team
>f mules out of the K. C. Wagon
Yard on South Bell, Saturday after-
noon, G. A. Stephens, a farmer living
hree miles west, of the city, wa«
kicked and seriously wounded by one
>f the mules. He was taken to the
ospital while his family returned to
the home in the country. At the
hospital his wounds were dressed.
He is seriously bruised about the
stomach. This morning he was able
to walk around but will be confined
to the hospital for several days.
MONEY mm MONEY
AND mil MIX
OLD SOLDIER TAKEN ILL
Put a little of it In one of our
homes or investments and see the re
suits.
$150 cash and monthly payments
buys a neat roo mhouse, barn, well
and 50xlG5 foot lot, east front. No
20C N. McKinley St. Price only $1
00U.
$250 cash and $15 per month will
buy a good 4 room cottage, barn,
well and 50x140 foot lot ; within two
blocks of Rock Island shops.
4o acr*« fine land in a high, sight-
ly and beautiful location on Inter-
urbaq car line, near Benson Park, is
a .snap at $5,000.
Five acre block, all in cultivation
fine for truck garden and chicken
ranch, located within three blocks of
car line, is a bragain at $1,050 cash
$2300 will buy a neat 5 room dwell-
ing, 2 closets, bath room, cistern and
75x140 foot lot. Cement walks. Lo-
cated in 6th block on North Broad-
way.
Think about it. We have two brick
store rooms in Shawnee that the own-
er requests us to sell In a hurry be-
cause he needs the money. Our price
j is $6,999 for both buildings.
EASTER10D & PUGH
jThe Real Estate Men
Ovtr Oklahoma National Bank,
phone 605.
Abner Harvey, an old soldier over
sixty years old was found by the
police serlousl" 111 and resting be-
neath a t ce on the Santa Fe right
of way. fc- uth of the city. He had
laid there most of the night and was
discovered this morning. He wag
taken to tbe police station wh?re the
physician rendered him assist-
ance. The county will probably take
care of htm when he Is sufficiently
)ven:d. He has b-Jem employed
on a farm In the western part of the
county and walked to 8hawnee last
Saturday. Since coming here he has
been ailing and retired to the shelter
of the tree. He has no relatives and
is originally from Pennsylvania be-
ing here before the opening.
"Any man who handles liquor Is
dishonest," declared a tall raw boned
Swede before a large crowd of citi-
zens on Main street this morning,
who were engaged in talking poli-
tics. A passersby overheard the re-
mark and turned on the Swede with
fire In his eye. He resented the
.statement and told the Swede so i
no mistaken language. Threatening
clouds began to gather about the
gioup and the spectators h«°ld their
b:eath in anxious (xpectation. How.
ever, when the beliggorent one be-
came insistent in his demand for an
apology th® Swede slinked off and
had no more to say.
BRIDGE IS FIIISHED
The street commissioner finished
the replanking of the bridge on East
Main east of the Santa Fe tracks tbia
morning; after a long delay caused
by tbe acting mayor not allowing hir-i
to go ahead until the railroad con-
st nted to pay for half of It. investi-
gation developed the fact that it is
the duty of the city and it is entirely
replanked now and the danger of the
dry rot oak planking causing any
harm to traffic is obviated.
When ordering flour, specify "L.
B." (Light Bread Patent.) Ask your
dealer. 22-tf
Trimmer Has Arrived.
Mrs. S. W. Godfrey's trimmer, Miss
Paulheamous, has arrived from Chi-
cago. The fall opening sale of millin-
ery will be announced later on
..Roll of Honor.,
The Shawnee National Hank of
Shawnee. Okla.
(Prom the "Financier," N.w York, duly 22,1907)
The Shawnee National of Shawnee, Oklahoma, contin-
ues to stand first on "The Financier's" Roll of Honor in
Ok'ahoma's National binks and also retains it premiership
in its city of location. The bank had a capital of $50,000
and a surplus of $50,600 at the time of the compilation of
the tables for the Roll of Honor. That it intends to still
further advance its position materially the most recent
statement of the Shawnee National under date of May 20th
shows still a capital of $50,000. but the surplus and profits
have advanced to $63,709, a splendid increase A conden-
sation of the latest report to the Comptroller of the Currency
follows: Loans and discounts $528,797; bonds and prem-
iums, $52,500; real estate, furniture and fixtures, $22,000;
demand loans, $26,172; cash and sight exchange, $200,487;
capital stock, $50,000; surplus and undivided profits, $63,-
709; deposits, $666,247; total resources, $829,956. The
directorate is one of exceptional strength, and heartily co-
operates with the official staP for the growth and advance-
ment of the business of the bank. The officers are: Pres-
ident, H. T. Douglas; vice-president, J. M. Aydelotte;
cashier, John W. Jones; assistant cashiers, F. V. Askew
and Robert W. Yakish.
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